Hélène Bararuzunza

After studying literature and cinema, completing a Master’s 2 and starting her doctorate, Hélène Bararuzunza left university to become a screenwriter and joined the CEEA. Since then, she has been writing for television and cinema.

She co-created the pan-African series C’est la vie! with Marguerite Abouet, adapted a Quebec series with Laura Piani, Plan B, and worked on series with Emmanuel Bourdieu, Nicolas Peufaillit and Jeanne Aptekman. Dialogist on a TF1 daily series, she also works for cinema, as a consultant (Sankara n’est pas mort by Lucie Viver, La patrie ou la mort by Julien Abraham), and co-writer.

She has just co-written Jean-Pascal Zadi’s next feature film (to be released in 2025), and is currently co-writing Emmanuel Bourdieu’s next film, and that of Céline Rouzet.

White Night (Nuits Blanches)

La sélection Annuelle 2025

Julie and Max, a young French couple in their thirties, move into a luxurious, ultra-secure residence in a dangerous tropical capital where Max intends to boost his career. Julie follows him for love. She soon finds it hard to cope with the expat milieu and the asymmetrical relationship with the local household staff. But in trying to do the right thing, she triggers a chain reaction that threatens the existing equilibrium: the balance of power shifts and fear takes hold of the expatriate group.